Mike Greene (British entrepreneur) explained

Mike Greene is a British entrepreneur who founded the Association of Retail Newsagents and has also been a board member of the Association of Convenience Stores for 20 years.[1] In 2015 he founded My Local in an attempt to turn around Morrisons' 125 failing M Local convenience shops.[2] [3] In 2011 he appeared on the Channel 4 show The Secret Millionaire.[4]

Greene contested the June 2019 Peterborough by-election as a candidate for the Brexit Party.[5] Although favoured by bookmakers,[6] he only achieved second place, with 29% of the vote, 683 votes behind Lisa Forbes, who retained the seat for Labour. He beat both the other two of the 'big three' parties, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.[7]

He was the Brexit Party candidate for Peterborough in the December 2019 general election but only came fourth with 2,127 votes (4.4%).[8]

In 2020, Greene was ordered to pay the Labour Party's legal costs after dropping a High Court challenge to the 2019 Peterborough by-election.[9]

Notes and References

  1. News: Former Secret Millionaire leads takeover of Morrisons' convenience stores . . 9 September 2015.
  2. News: Morrisons sells its chain of convenience stores . . 9 September 2015.
  3. Web site: 2015-09-09 . Morrisons is selling all of its M Local convenience stores . 2023-11-19 . The Independent . en.
  4. News: 'Secret Millionaire' returns to Peterborough to save adventure playground from closure . . 21 May 2011.
  5. Web site: Former Tory businessman Mike Greene revealed as Brexit Party candidate in Peterborough by-election . 9 May 2019 .
  6. News: Peterborough: Farage makes final drive to win the Brexit Party's first MP . 5 June 2019 . Andrew Woodcock . . https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-nigel-farage-peterborough-party-by-election-a8945941.html . 2022-05-14 . subscription . live.
  7. News: Brexit party's MP candidate under fire for freehold profiteering . 5 June 2019 . Rajeev Syal . .
  8. News: Peterborough Parliamentary constituency . BBC News . BBC . 19 November 2019.
  9. News: Lamy . Joel . Peterborough Brexit Party candidate ordered to pay full legal costs to Labour after dropping election result challenge . 6 April 2020 . Peterborough Telegraph . 6 April 2020.

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